Joy, thank you for being on this list during the voting. Thank you for your courage and your patience. Carol At 09:57 AM 4/23/2003, Joy Fisher wrote: >OK, I have been here for 13 days, and I'll probably >get myself unsubbed, but I have bit my tongue long >enough. > >I have belonged to many, many state lists over the >years and I will have to say I have never seen so much >hateful, disrespectful mail as I have seen on this >list. Would you write the things I have seen on this >list if you were writing to your grandmother? > >I am seeing a leadership in GA, that seems to be in >denial. You can talk percentages all you want. The >fact is that over 50% of the membership did take the >time to vote and more than half of them want a change. >USGenWeb has never had a better turnout for an >election. Unless the leadership can make some changes >and reach out to the 35 who want a change, you will >have a continuing problem. The next time these 35 >vote, it may be with their feet. > >Lastly, the Archives is not your enemy. The Archives >is a library without reference librarians. The only >folks there are unpaid shelvers putting stuff on the >shelves for all to use. You are free to use the >materials (by linking), but if you want to use the >materials on your web sites, all you need to do is ask >the person who submitted the material for permission. >I would not dream of using your materials without your >permission. Like it or not, the Archives has the only >national search engines. When someone left home and >"went west" after the Civil War, you have the option >of looking in several thousand individual counties or >using a national search engine. > >__________________________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo >http://search.yahoo.com > > >==== GAGEN Mailing List ==== >Did your county's courthouse ever meet with a disaster?? >Check out GAGenWeb's List and Research Tips at: >http://www.rootsweb.com/~gagenweb/cchelp/courthouses.htm Carol C-H <cch@netdoor.com> http://www2.netdoor.com/~cch/